Feasibility study to create a polychromatic guidestar in atomic sodium
- 7 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 67 (4) , 043403
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.67.043403
Abstract
We have theoretically determined and experimentally confirmed that polychromatic multiphoton coherent excitation can be used to most efficiently achieve a selective total population inversion in a multilevel system. These results suggest a solution to the problem of using mesospheric sodium as a guidestar.Keywords
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